The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the pres...ence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not the least vital of the problems which confront our country is the problem of her attitude towards those of her children who, h...aving left her in her hour of need, have been called back to her now on the eve of her longawaited victory, to her whom in loneliness and exile they have at last learned to love. In exile, we have said, but here we must distinguish. There is an economic and there is a spiritual exile. There are those who left her to seek the bread by which men live and there are others, nay, her most favoured children, who left her to seek in other lands that food of the spirit by which a nation of human beings is sustained in life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influ...ence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »